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  "id": 2921292,
  "name": "W. C. Foster, Plaintiff in Error, v. C. M. Church and William Bowley, Defendants in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Foster v. Church",
  "decision_date": "1918-02-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 6,405",
  "first_page": "628",
  "last_page": "629",
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      "cite": "208 Ill. App. 628"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "W. C. Foster, Plaintiff in Error, v. C. M. Church and William Bowley, Defendants in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Frank D. Fulton and Eugene L. Garey, for plaintiff in error; Earl James Garey, of counsel.",
      "William L. Pierce, for defendants in error."
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    "head_matter": "W. C. Foster, Plaintiff in Error, v. C. M. Church and William Bowley, Defendants in Error.\nGen. No. 6,405.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Circuit Court of Boone county; the Hon. Claire C. Edwards, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1917.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed February 12, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nPetition by W. 0. Poster for a writ of mandamus against C. M. Church, county treasurer, and William Bowley, county clerk, defendants, to compel the county clerk to make an entry opposite the description of certain property purchased by the petitioner at a tax sale on a judgment of the County Court, based on a certain special assessment for the improvement of certain streets in the City of Belvidere, Boone county, that the property was erroneously sold, and the county treasurer to refund on demand the amount paid for the certificate of sale. From a judgment for the defendants, on demurrer, dismissing the petition, plaintiff brings error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nMunicipal corporations\u2014when description in delinquent tax list notice and in judgment on tax sale of railroad property is void for uncertainty. A description in a delinquent tax list notice published of \u201cBelvidere City Railway Co. right of way, tracks, etc., $327.70,\u201d and in the judgment on tax sale of \u201cRight of way, tracks and franchise of Belvidere City Railway Company, its successors, assigns,\u201d held void for uncertainty, under section 40 of the Local Improvement Act (J. & A. T 1430), providing that in levying special assessments each lot, block, tract or parcel of land shall be assessed separately in the same manner as upon assessment for general taxation except the property of railroad companies or the right of way and franchise of street railway companies, which may be described in any manner sufficient to reasonably identify the property intended to be assessed, in a petition for a writ of mandamus under section 213 of the Revenue Act (J. & A. jf 9432), providing for entry on the sale and redemption record of a tax sale that the property was erroneously sold and for refund of the amount paid.\nThe property was described in the judgment as: \u201cEight of way, tracks and franchise of Belvidere City Railway Company, its successors, assigns,\u201d and in the delinquent tax list notice published as: \u201cBelvidere City Railway Co. right of way, tracks, etc., for $327.70.\u201d\nFrank D. Fulton and Eugene L. Garey, for plaintiff in error; Earl James Garey, of counsel.\nWilliam L. Pierce, for defendants in error."
  },
  "file_name": "0628-01",
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